This is an example of I always say that the most intellectually dishonest people on earth are lawyers: their job is to have an opinion for money. Can you imagi

This is an example of I always say that the most intellectually dishonest people on earth are lawyers: their job is to have an opinion for money. Can you imagine if you ask an engineer "do you think this bridge will hold?" and he replied "if you pay me I will think whatever you tell me". This could happen, but this would just be a corrupt engineer, it's not the profession is supposed to work. But this IS how lawyers work, by construction. If you pay them they will think what you tell them. Knowing this, is anyone surprised that the guys who argued that 50bn is too much for the CEO want the lawyers (themselves) to be paid 5bn? No of course not. This is how their profession works, they're intellectual mercenaries.